Cerevel Makes Progress, But Karuna Still One To Watch In Schizophrenia

Neuroscience Renaissance Continues

Competition to bring new schizophrenia therapies to market is increasing, with the need to demonstrate side-effect improvements over existing drugs especially important.

Mental health
Schizophrenia has not seen significant advances in treatment over the last 20 years. • Source: Alamy

Interest in the schizophrenia field is hotting up, with a recent readout from Cerevel Therapeutics and its candidate CVL-231 further bolstering belief that new therapies are around the corner after many years without significant advances.

Shares in Cerevel shot up on its Phase Ib results, but the firm is some way behind Karuna Therapeutics...

Scrip Podcast

Keep up with the top pharma business news of the week. On the go.

Scrip brings you a weekly bulletin of top picks.

More from Neurological

More from Therapeutic Category